Overview
- State of the art review of the science of integrated water resources management in industrialised and developing countries
- Novel concepts such as blue and green water, virtual water trade, water footprints of nations, etc.
- New perspectives and methodologies for modelling, up-scaling, and social learning in water management
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis?
The pressing water problems must clearly be tackled from an integrated perspective taking into account environmental, human and technological factors and especially their interdependence. The key papers in this volume from the Bonn conference focus on the challenges of integrated assessment of water resources in the context of global change. The growing gap between North and South is also addressed, in terms not only of access to water and its quality, but also of the capacity to do research and implement solutions.
The coverage of the papers is up-to-date and comprehensive. Highlights include emerging concepts such as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modelling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change
Book Subtitle: A North-South Analysis
Editors: Eric Craswell, Mike Bonnell, Deborah Bossio, Siegfried Demuth, Nick Giesen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5591-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5590-4Published: 26 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9311-8Published: 17 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5591-1Published: 05 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 373
Additional Information: Reprinted from Water Resources Management 21/1 (2007)
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change, Landscape Ecology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Economics